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Launching Wine Travel Guides Phase Two!
It's nearly 30 months since the Wine Travel Guides website went live and I've just made some big changes in a bid to keep the site alive. The website has received a gratifying amount of praise from users, writers and those in both the wine and the tr...
French Wine Industry Let Off the Hook
Subject to ratification by the senate, on Friday 6th March the French government gave a reprieve to wine tastings and wine festivals (see my previous post) in their proposed new health laws concerning alcohol sold through 'Open Bars'. (The term is us...
Do French lawmakers really aim to ban Wine Festivals?
Just over a year ago I wrote here about the stupidity of the French lawmakers who had decreed that certain articles about wine had to carry a health warning just like advertising does in France. Discussions continued all last year about the subject o...
Winegrowers Fairs – Lyon, London and Paris
French wine lovers buy their wines in a different way to British wine lovers and probably Americans too. For a start, with a vastly improved motorway network in France in less than four hours Parisians can reach Champagne, Alsace, Burgundy, Bordeaux ...
Lost in the Wine Regions of France?
For a long time, I've had a very dull fascination with postcodes. I used to hate British postcodes because they are so hard to type - with letters and numbers mixed up. On the other hand, they have the great plus that each postcode covers a maximum n...
One Year On: Exciting Developments Planned
Wine Travel Guides has been live for a whole year now and the feedback has been great - when a subscriber writes to me saying how useful the guides are with his wine trip planning, it makes it seem all worthwhile; when I have a good week for subscrip...
